6th August 2025

Digital Forensics Round-Up, August 06 2025
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Read the latest DFIR news – starting a digital forensic business, Hashcat v7.0.0, GenAI incident response guidance, cross-border investigation challenges, and more....

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Halfway Through The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session

Halfway Through The S21 Transcriber Spotlight Session

6th August 2025

We are halfway through the S21 Transcriber Spotlight — catch up on the latest demos and see how investigators are using the tool in real casework....read more

Safeguarding ICAC Investigators: Detego Global’s Commitment To Mental Well-Being

Safeguarding ICAC Investigators: Detego Global’s Commitment To Mental Well-Being

5th August 2025

Protecting children online shouldn't come at the cost of investigators' mental health—see how Detego Global is changing the game....read more

Semantics 21 Wants Your Help To Rename LASERi-X

Semantics 21 Wants Your Help To Rename LASERi-X

5th August 2025

Semantics 21 is renaming their groundbreaking CSAM forensics tool—and your idea could win your team a free year of access....read more

Skills, secrecy the hallmark of officers who pursue sex criminals

Lt. Jeff Weible and his staff are fond of secrecy. Their job requires intense secrecy and special skills, mostly with computers, sometimes with acting, always with the pursuit of sex criminals in mind. His most experienced detective, Jennifer Wright, is

Micro Systemation AB Releases XRY v5.1 with iPad Support

Micro Systemation AB has announced the release of version 5.1 of its XRY Complete mobile device forensics software. This new version includes full support for the Apple iPad, along with the following devices…– Logical acquisitions from 107 new devices, including

Teel Tech Announces Advanced Mobile Device and iPhone Forensic Training

Teel Technologies has announced its Fall and Winter schedule of Advanced Mobile Device Forensic classes and iPhone Bootcamp courses, as well as introducing tool-specific and online training. Complete scheduling information can be found at www.TeelTechTraining.com.Teel Tech’s Advanced Class educates students

Resolving MSN Messenger User IDs to email addresses

"A while ago I developed a small piece of software to resolve an MSN Messenger User ID to the email address used to create it and this has been used internally at Kent Police for quite a while. After we

Deleted Data Forensics for Mobiles Phones Wins UK Accreditation

The UK-based digital forensics company, Forensic Telecommunications Services (FTS) has been awarded accreditation to ISO 17025:2005 and, in a UK first, the laboratory has been assessed and granted accreditation for its specialist techniques used in physically recovering deleted data from

Is Breaking CAPTCHA a Crime?

Prosecutors in a New Jersey ticket scalping case are pushing the envelope on the federal computer hacking law, setting a precedent that could make it a felony to violate a website’s terms of service and fool a CAPTCHA, according to

Stealing $10 Million, 20 cents at a time

"On June 28, 2010, the Federal Trade Commission unveiled a law suit againt unknown credit card fraudsters, seizing the assets of 16 companies run by at least fourteen "money mules". Each of these companies was run by a money mule

New Hoffmann Advanced Forensic Sessions November 2010

From 22 – 26 November 2010 Hoffmann Forensic Services will for the third time organize the Advanced Forensic Sessions. These technical sessions are aimed at experienced forensic investigators who want to increase their knowledge of the latest forensic techniques in

New course: Fundamentals & Principles, Mobile Phone Programming

As discussed at the 2009 MTEB Conference, Greg Smith of TrewMTE has today launched “Fundamentals & Principles, Mobile Phone Programming”. Questions answered by the course include: How does the programming language relate to evidence? What does the keypad tell us?

Shadow Analyser speeds digital analysis of recovery files

Researchers at UK computer forensics firm Disklabs have helped develop technology that will drastically speed up the forensic analysis of ‘Volume Shadow Copies’ (VSC) of suspect Windows computers. The introduction of VSC technology in Windows 2003 created a huge headache

Mobile Forensics Training: Investigating Connection Records

This month sees the launch of the Forensic Focus Preferred Training program which aims to highlight the very best digital forensics training available. The first course offered is "Mobile Forensics: Investigating Connection Records" delivered in the UK by Sam Raincock

Windows Search forensics

by Joachim Metz "While some may curse Windows Vista for all its changes, for us forensic investigators it also introduced new interesting 'features'. One is the integration of Windows (Desktop) Search into the operating system. Most corporations have been reluctant

Computer Forensics – sometimes it’s all about timing

by Sam Raincock "When a crime happens, the time of the events may be critical to the legal case. However, how are these times established? Is it the time alleged by the witness? When the CCTV system captured the image?